Resilient vehicle-tire.



W. H. GLARK.v EESILIENT VEHICLE TIRE. v APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1`9,*1910.

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WARREN I-I.'CLARK, 0F WEST BURLINGTON, NEW YORK.

RESILIENT VEHICLE-TIRE.

-Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 13,' 1.911,

Application led September4 1B, 1810.A Serial No. 582,778. i

T o all 'whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN H. CLARK, a citizen of the United lStates,resident of l/Vest Burlington, in the county of Otsego and State of NewYork, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Resilient Vehicle-Tires; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference beinghad to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters or figures rabbeted andlying within the of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 is a radial cross sectiony of my tire as applied showing thepneumatic tube as inflated. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing thepneumatic tube as deflated.

The invention has relation to combined pneumatic and cushion tires, andit consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, ashereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings illustrat- -ing the invention, the numeral1 designates the felly of the wheel, to which is clamped by bolts 2, 2,a carrier member or annulus 3, composed of sections 4, 4, having opposedannular spring flanges 5, 5. This carrier member is provided-"withinward projecting portions 6, 6, located at the outer portions of thefianges thereof, said portions extending toward each other and havingannular shoulders 7.and`8, the inner shoulder 8 being outer shoulder, aplane vertical annular wall 9 intersecting sald shoulders and beinglocated between the same.

Fitting in theA channel 10 between the lat-- eral spring flanges is avpneumatic tube annulus 11, a cushion strip annulus 12 having an inwardextending central annular contraeted portion 13 bearing uponthepneumatic tube and annular shoulders 14 and 15 at each side locatedwithout and separated vfrom said contracted portion, said shouldersbeing intersected by plane vertical walls 15, 15, located between thesame, the outer shoulders 15 in this case being rabbeted and adapted tobear should-the pneumatic tube become deflated upon the shoulders 7, 7,of the* springianges the inner shoulders 16, 16 of the cushion stripbeing at the same tlme 'free movement of the adapted to bear upon theinnen rabbeted,

shoulders 8, 8, of said flanges, the vertical@ walls 9, 9, of thecushion strip having neat' but slidable engagement with the verticalwalls 15, 15, of the flanges. Thus the cushion strip rests normallymatic tube with the shoulders thereof raised from the shoulders of thespring flanges, the

transverse bolts 17, 17, connecting said flanges and working in radialtransverse slot-s 18, 18, of the cushion strip allowin cushion stripinwar and outward in its seat and the vertical walls` upon the inliatedpneuof the cushion strip and spring flanges having slidable engagementwhich in connection with the slidable engagement of the free ends of theportions 6, 6, of said flanges with the central contracted portion ofthe cushion strip willl eHectually brace said strip against lateral Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Let-Y ters Patent is A combinedpneumatic and cushiorijtire composed of annular clamp stripsprovidedwith outward extending flanges including an intervaltherebetween, at their outer free ends each an outer an nular shoulder,an inner rabbeted annular shoulder, and an inner plane annular lateralwall connecting the inner and outer shoulders, an annular pneumatic tubelocated at the 'bottom of said interval, an annular cushion strip havinga contracted portion located in said interval, normally resting uponsaid 'pneumatic tube and'providedwith radialV transverseslots, saidcushion 'strip having an enlarged tread portion 'provided at" eachpneumatic tube become de.

said `flanges having.

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side with inner and outer annular shoulders bolts engaging said slotsand connecting said 10 located Without and separated from saidconflanges.

fj; shoulders of said ianges, and a plane annutr(r cted portion andnormally separated by In testimony whereof I aix my signature, annularintervals from the inner` and outer in presence of two Witnesses.

lar lateral Wall at each side connecting the W' H' CLARK' inner andouter shoulders and having slicl- Witnesses: o ing and bracingengagement Wlth the inner JULIEN E. MATTERN,

lateral Walls of said flanges, and transverse GEORGE M. ANDERSON.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, vby addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

